on windows a new line is really 2 characters, carriage return and line
feed. In unix it's 2-in-1. The idea is to convert them you need to
replace the carriage return and line feed with a newline character.
if you don't know what \r or \n are you should most definitely do some
rtfmming :)
Good luck :)
--Mike H
On Mar 3, 2008, at 1:12 PM, -- rada -- wrote:
Hi all,
I am trying to implement a user-input scrubbing function, more
specifically, normalize linebreaks from windows/mac to unix. I can
just do preg_replace but I saw this piece of code somewhere and
don't understand it enough to even know what to google.
supposedly converts Windows CRLF to Unix LF:
$str =~ s/\r\n/\n/g;
What does =~ do? I can RTFM if you point me to it :)
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